This instrument was originally set up at JPL by Coleen Roehl, Jean-Francois Blavier, and Norton Allen and was moved to Indianapolis during INFLUX, was moved back to JPL, and then to NASA Armstrong (formerly Dryden) in July 2013. Around Dec 2014, container was placed on poured pad at permanent location.

In spring of 2017, this system will move back to JPL for use during testing of OCO-3 hardware.